My jobs on campaigns were pretty low on the totem pole - I was an advance man.

Tales of power and ambition and intrigue and betrayal and desire - when you're telling those in a big way, you automatically want to go to Shakespeare.

It's a rough and tumble game whenever power is involved - people's ambitions, their desires, their competitive spirit will often push them to play outside the rules. It's dramatic, it's interesting, and I think it's something we can all identify with to a degree.

I don't think that Washington is a fundamentally bad or corrupt place.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

That's what real punk is about - doing it yourself and building a community where people share ideas and share creativity.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Film and television is just a different technique in terms of how to approach the camera but basically the job is the same; but what you learn as a craft in theater, you can then learn to translate that into any mediums.